On recommendation of reader and fellow blogger, Manasi, I started using EVEHQ to plan my ship fittings. It didn’t take me long to realise how EVEHQ is so much more than just a fitting tool. I managed to find a skill breakdown chart and it got me thinking, how does my skill set look compared to the other EVE players and bloggers?
You can see my skill breakdown below.
To see (and then show me) your skill breakdown, it’s as simple as a couple clicks and you’re there.
Feel free to link to your screenshot in the comments on your own blog. This isn’t a contest or anything so there are no rules. I’m just curious as to how my skills stack up against the rest of you. 
For once, I actually want to do a 2008 retrospective post this time around. But unfortunately, as my blog has only been at its own domain since mid-december, I don’t really have enough blog or comment statistics to write a decent post about it. That said, I quickly realised that I hadn’t written a goals/predictions/resolutions post, well… ever. So I’d better get cracking.
- Finish World War Z – Heather got it for me back in April and I still haven’t finished it. I got about half way through in the space of a couple days then put it down and started reading other books.
- Finish Eve: The Empyrean Age – I read a couple pages of it while on holiday back in August and haven’t read any of it since.
- Buy more comics – Heather kind of unintentionally turned me into a minor comic book geek and now I’m determined to build up a collection, although I’d sure it’ll turn out to be quite a small one. Speaking of comics, anyone have any recommendations? The only one I’ve bought so far is issue 1 of the second series (already read the first series) of The Umbrella Academy.
- Quit smoking for good – While I haven’t had a cigarette for about two weeks and I feel fine, I’ve gone longer before and then started again just because I was bored.
I’m a strange smoker. I never smoke when I’m alone at home and I never really feel the need to smoke. But if I’m waiting for something or someone for a while, I’ll sometimes have two or three in a row just out of boredom.
- Pay more attention to Heather when online - Heather suggested this one.
- Learn to play guitar – I’ve wanted to learn to play guitar for a while now and my brother doesn’t use his anymore so it’s the perfect opportunity. I’m one of those people that want to learn but don’t want to pay for lessons so I’ll have to try to teach myself.
And finally:
- Blog more – I have three-ish blogs scattered around the internet, but I only post semi-regularly in this one. So, I plan to post more in this one, and start posting again in my others.
That’s all for now. There are more but I don’t want to overload myself with goals because that’ll only make it more likely that I won’t achieve them.
Anyone else have any goals that they want to achieve by the end of this year?
It’s been a while since I’ve done a ‘month in review’ post, but since I’ve missed out on a lot of months to review, I thought I’d start again. So, onto the actual post.
Site View Count:
Articulated Sky has had a bit of a sporadic view count over the last month. Ranging between a high (although not an all-time high) of 161 views and a low of 27. That said, I had an average view count of 40-50 per day. I didn’t think was much of an improvement on last month, but it seems that I was wrong as this month saw me achieve the second highest view count out of the 11 months this blog has been active with the highest being December 2007.
Patch Day:
As expected, the big Empyrean Age release gave me quite a large increase in page views for a good few days, increasing my pageview to 161 views the first day, then decreasing by about 30-40 on average for a couple days until it got back to my average.
While it always means that I can’t play EVE, I love extended downtimes as it means that people will be searching for EVE Online blogs to satisfy their EVE addictions.
Rest of the month:
Later on in the month, I had three medium to large spikes in amount of views but I can’t seem to spot what caused these. It’s possible that during these days there was a small un-scheduled downtime and people were trying to find out why, but I’m unsure.
Now onto my general statistics.
Statistics:
Top 10 Posts:
| New EVE Ship Purchase: Myrmidon |
151 views |
| Mass panic grips New Eden |
123 views |
| PvP Setup, Guides, & Apps |
113 views |
| EVE Tutorial Play-Through |
67 views |
| EVE Online Graphics Creation |
62 views |
| Singularity… Testing… Testing… – Empyrean Age |
57 views |
| Minmatar Armada in Yulai?! |
56 views |
| Drone Bandwidth & Looking For A Change in Scenery |
52 views |
| Getting closer to war… |
51 views |
| EVE Linkage |
51 views |
Top 5 Refferers:
Top 5 Search Terms:
- eve tutorial
- eve myrmidon
- eve ships
- buy eve ships
- yulai
Top 5 Clicks:
Before I start, I realise that I didn’t write a stats post for September or October but from today I am going to aim to get out a sort of “previous month in review” post at the beginning of each month. I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to do it and what I’m going to include so I guess we’ll see where this goes.
Site
Articulated Sky hasn’t had much growth this month compared to my first full month in August, although with that said it has experienced some growth. My biggest period of growth was between August and September where page views shot up from 868 to 1,424. After September they dropped down to just under half of that at 775, which I put down to a lack of posts on my part. After realising this I decided to bump up my post frequency or at least the frequency of my EVE Online related posts as it seems to be what this blog has begun to centre around.
So, as a result of my bumping up of posts I managed to rack up 1,201 page views last month. Hopefully I can carry on with this growth (albeit slight) and get even more page views this month.
Statistics
Top 10 Posts:
| New EVE Ship Purchase: Myrmidon |
194 views |
| EVE Online: Trinity Teaser |
168 views |
| PvP Setup, Guides, & Apps |
111 views |
| WebWars: EVE |
95 views |
| New Two Minute Trinity Trailer! |
50 views |
| We assure you that Android Hell is a real place… |
48 Views |
| EVE Online |
31 views |
| New Graphics Engine Now On Singularity! |
31 views |
| G.T.F.O.O.J |
22 views |
| A Halo 3 Marriage Proposal |
18 views |
Top 5 Referrers:
The above referrers are estimated for the last month. Wordpress only keeps referral statistics for the last seven days.
Top 5 Clicks:
The above clicks are estimated for the last month. Wordpress only keeps click statistics for the last seven days.
Misc Statistics:
- 9 posts
- 6 comments
- 1,201 page views
- 951 visitors
- 111 returning visitors
2007.09.28.18.06.55, originally uploaded by Godlesswanderer.
That said, there are no EVE-related stories today. At the moment, I’m just doing the boring things. Cleaning up my EVE-mail inbox, reading up on what my corp has been up to over the last two weeks, stuff like that.
Plus, I am currently sitting in a station in Jita in a new Myrmidon, waiting to see whether I should buy my modules or wait for them to be manufactured by the industrial side of my corp.
It seems my corp is now at war. We seem to have been war-decced by some random corporation in Empire that seems to want to destroy us. At the moment we’ve been conducting surveillance, trying to find out what times they’re online, what ships they fly, who they are friendly with, etc. There hasn’t been any shots fired as of yet (as far as I am aware of), but after trying to get us to come to them they seem to be coming to us now. I’ll keep you guys updates on what happens. That said, I won’t be posting any of my corps movements or tactics until they after they have happened as it is possible that a member of the enemy corporation could find (or already has found) this blog.
Still on the subject of EVE, I entered a signature graphic contest a week or two ago. After making my entry I completely forgot about the contest until yesterday when I was checking the EVE-GFX forums and thought I’d check the thread to see who won.
To my surprise it was me and I ended up being paid 30 million ISK (which sorted out the ISK problems I had before my account was suspended). You can see the signature below.
If this graphic isn’t showing, it seems EVE-Files is experiencing hardware problems.
